Also known as Axel Heiberg Island
Where: Nunavut, Canada (81.2° N, 92.2° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 4.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: unnamed Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; grainstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: adpression, permineralized
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ),
• All specimens were deposited in the Paleobotanical collection at the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottowa, Ontario, Canada, and are prefixed by the abrevitaion CMN.
Primary reference: B.A. LePage, B. Beauchamp, H.W. Pfefferkorn and J. Utting. 2003. Late Early Permian plant fossils from the Canadian High Arctic: a rare paleoenvironmental/climatic window in northwest Pangea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 191:345-372 [H. Pfefferkorn/A. Kidd/A. Kidd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34100: authorized by Hermann Pfefferkorn, entered by Amy Kidd on 15.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Incertae sedis, Pechorostrobus sp., Gordonispora obstaculifera, Pallidosporites multiradiatus, Pakhapites rotundus, Sverdrupollenites agluatus, Sverdrupollenites connudatus, Crinalites sabinensis
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Dolerotheca sp. Halle 1933 | |
Arberiopsida | |
Rufloria spp. Meyen 1963
Bardocarpus sp. Zalessky 1937
Sylvella sp. Zalessky 1937
Vojnovskya sp. Neuburg 1955 | |
Dictyopteridiopsida | |
Zamiopteris sp. Schmalhausen 1879 | |
Raistrickia | |
Alisporites | |
Florinites | |
Trigonocarpus | |
Trigonocarpus spp. Brongniart 1828 | |
Vittatina | |
Triquitrites | |
Triquitrites sp. Wilson and Coe | |
Algae | |
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Sphenopsida | |
Paracalamites sp. Zalessky 1927 | |
Cycadopsida | |
Compsopteris sp. Zalessky 1934 cycads | |
Walchia | |
Walchia sp. Sternberg 1825 | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Angarocarpus sp. Radczenko 1955 | |
Sphenobaiera sp. Florin 1936 | |
Protohaploxypinus | |
Lophotriletes | |
Weylandites | |
Samaropsis spp. Göppert 1864 | |
Pinopsida | |
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Lycopodiopsida | |
Neoraistrickia caudicea spikemoss
Neoraistrickia delicata spikemoss | |
Apiculatisporis | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Pteridopsida | |
Lycopsida | |
Cyclogranisporites | |